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Not if Lineker had signed a contract with the BBC with regards his political comments not the first time, and that looks to be the case, a pathetic comment that the British government could be classed in the same category as Nazi Germany in the 30s the mans a clown.

 

It's genuine, and good on Hughes for showing solidarity with another British footballing legend.

The BBC don't get to dictate to freelancers what they can and can't think, and freedom of speech is pivotal regardless of if someone is left or right leaning.

Tim Davie has dropped an absolute bollock here and humiliated himself and the BBC.

Hughes and the lads will give interviews to all other relevant outlets, so there's no issue to be had with them refusing to speak with Radio Leeds.

 

Says it all really. Good riddance...

 

Hughes & players refuse to speak to BBC in support of Gary Lineker. Pity as I look forward to hearing their views.

 

The art of debate needs reviving! It seems you cannot have a different point of view without somebody using insulting language to a fellow poster.

 

I would have thought the contractual agreement Radio Leeds had with the club was that our manager gave pre match and post match interview.

 

Well there you go, already got City fans at each others throats, well done to all at Bradford City if true, have they just put season tickets on sale, oh dear.

 

Although football is a powerful medium, politics should be left out of sport, all sport, full stop.
I fully support freedom of speech, but if you want to discuss this subject, whilst in the public eye become a politicion, not a well paid sports presenter. If the bbc have a neutrality stance, then as an employee of that company, you can not continue to be paid whilst going against your employer.

 

The BBC told him to apologise on air for something he tweeted on his personal account.

He refused.

So the BBC pulled him off MOTD, then everyone else did the same in solidarity. You would do the same for your friends.

If Alan sugar can call corbyn a nazi on twitter why cant Gary say that the policy is akin to 1930s germany? Why is andrew neil allowed his own political opinions even though at the time he was a political journalist for the BBC?

Its not impartiality at all and you know it.

 

I do not think anyone in their right mind , has any issue with giving asylum to people who are genuinely in danger. The issue here is working out who they are from the ones arriving just for financial gain.
It always amazes me , that its seems to be mostly youngish males getting off these boats.Especially when they arrive from France, a safe country , more than twice our area with a smaller population.

 

How do you know , who is a genuine asylum seeker and who is an economic migrant , if they have no passport or documentation. As a small nation , that is one of the most overcrowded in europe and struggling for whatever reason to even look after the people already here, someone most draw a line somewhere. We can not just have an open door policy.
I have genuine sympathy for people fleeing war and oppression. no matter where they are from. i have none for those just trying to work a ticket and the people smugglers, if ever caught , should get the most severe punishment available to the law.

 

So you seem to have all the answers, i don't . Where do you think the line should be drawn, if at all.
Was it 50,000 refugees in the past 12 months. 10 years at those levels and we have to build a new city the size of Bradford.
We have housing shortages as it is , the NHs has massive waiting lists, you got a dentist. the schools have class sizes with such numbers the teachers can not give proper education, people are using food banks in greater numbers than ever.
I have no problems with genuine refugee's , but at some point we have to start to solve the issues in this country, of which there are many, and to say tax the rich, is not the answer, as we all know ,they will find ways to shield their wealth, tax havens.
Personally i have not spoken to any refugee's, not sure what relevance that has. I did assist a gentlemen who had out stayed his visa and when he was given permission to stay, i employed him. Unfortunately his attitude once he was legal was shocking. he had more unauthorised time off and sick leave , than my other employees put together, hence he is now unemployed and claimed benefits since the 2 years i ended his employment, so maybe my judgement on this is a little different to yours, but don't make assumptions about my intentions. We are all mostly imigrants to this land. my grandparents from southern Ireland my wife's from Italy.

 

Maybe, but they need to consult the ordinary license payer. I haven’t watched MOTD since City was in the PL. I agree on the woke stuff, it is beyond laughable. I think it was because it was so obnoxious that there was a hue and cry for his head. I don’t understand the appeal of Lineker, he was a good striker, he just irritates me not for his political views, but he has an arrogance about him which is a right turn off.

 

The same corporation that gave the ISIS bride a podcast in hope she would regain her citizenship.

Really right wing.

 

Alot of people dont watch MOTD because Lineker is a smug, virtue signalling lefty...

 

Why does Alan Sugar get away with offensive political tweets or Andrew Neil when he worked for the BBC?

 

But what Lineker said was ridicules wasn't it, does he seriously believe the situation with regards the channel crossing is as bad as Germany in the 30s his right to say it must be defended but apart from his buddies he's made a fool of himself with regards his comment.

 

Jesus wept.

 

But he didn't say that, did he? You're putting words in his mouth. He said the language used by some government ministers about asylum seekers is reminiscent of language used in Nazi Germany, which it is.
Big difference.

 

Tbf if the above happened he would have been hounded out by the left